Month: October 2017

(JTA) — Fashion designer Donna Karan said comments defending Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, suggesting that women who dress provocatively are “asking for it,” do not represent how she feels about the situation.

Meanwhile, other female celebrity friends of Weinstein, Meryl Streep and Judi Dench, condemned the film producer over a series of recent sexual harassment allegations against him.

The board of the Weinstein Company fired Weinstein, its co-founder, on Sunday after saying it learned of new information about his behavior. Weinstein was already on a leave of absence after The New York Times published a report last week detailing…

(JTA) — Jerry Seinfeld called President Donald Trump a “water gun clown” and said the president’s “happy face” is terrifying.

The Jewish comedian made the critical comments in an interview Friday with New Yorker editor David Remnick at the New Yorker Festival.

“Trump’s happy face — that’s the scariest face of all time,” Seinfeld said, attributing the observation to fellow comic Colin Quinn, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “He’s kind of a water gun clown.”

Seinfeld, 63, told Remnick that Trump did not qualify for an invitation to his web series talk show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” which then-President Barack Obama appeared…

A Syrian injured during fighting in Syria’s civil war is rushed into Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel, in 2015. (Photo via Ziv Medical Center)

(JTA) — An Israeli philanthropist has made a six-figure grant to a hospital in northern Israel to fund treatment for Syrian children who have suffered hearing loss as a result of their country’s civil war.

Morris Kahn’s pilot grant to Ziv Medical Center in Safed is part of the Genesis Prize Foundation’s global initiative to aid refugee causes and encourage other Jewish foundations and philanthropists to do the same.…

Clayton Swisher, the Qatar-owned news network’s head of investigative reporting, made the revelation Monday in an interview on Al Jazeera’s main Arabic channel. He said a documentary will be aired based on the reporter’s work.

Earlier in the day, the United Kingdom official media watchdog rejected complaints against an earlier Al Jazeera documentary that exposed an Israeli Embassy official attempting to influence…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer renewed his call for President Donald Trump to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem after the president said he wanted to wait to give his relaunched peace push a chance.

“President Trump’s recent comments suggest his indecisiveness on the embassy’s relocation,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday in an email to JTA. “As someone who strongly believes that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel, I am calling for the…